# Inference Providers as backend

Lighteval allows to use Hugging Face's Inference Providers to evaluate llms on supported providers such as Black Forest Labs, Cerebras, Fireworks AI, Nebius, Together AI and many more.

## Quick use

> [!WARNING]
> Do not forget to set your HuggingFace API key.
> You can set it using the `HF_TOKEN` environment variable or by using the `huggingface-cli` command.


```bash
lighteval endpoint inference-providers \
    "model=deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1,provider=hf-inference" \
    "lighteval|gsm8k|0|0"
```

## Using a config file

You can use config files to define the model and the provider to use.

```bash
lighteval endpoint inference-providers \
    examples/model_configs/inference_providers.yaml \
    "lighteval|gsm8k|0|0"
```

with the following config file:

```yaml
model:
  model_name: "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B"
  provider: "novita"
  timeout: null
  proxies: null
  parallel_calls_count: 10
  generation:
    temperature: 0.8
    top_k: 10
    max_new_tokens: 10000
```
